Twitter Blue is coming back—with more colors and assurances from Musk
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At the rate he's going, it's not going to be a very useful tool for that, either.
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Exactly. Some of the talking points are actually not bad. E.g., I think every large social media platform should have some kind of formalized appeals process when it comes to dealing with bans and the like.
However, I have exactly zero trust in a Musk-run Twitter to implement in this in any kind of sensible way. Best case, it's going to be half-baked mess that will rely far too heavily on machine learning and automation to actually work with any tweets outside of the tiny bubble of subjects Musk cares about, worst case it's just a lie or a red herring.
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It should be completely effective, because no one is smart enough to circumvent the childishly simple filters by using simple code words, like Hilter88.
Do you remember a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, when Musk bought Tw#tter so he could get rid of bots, not promote them to content moderation?
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On the one hand, Shrier is a lying shrew. So, at first, I kind of dismissed this as being more braggartly crap....
But??? After a think-thunk it dawned on me that Musk has that level of access and that became a rather frightful thought, so I thought it worthy of mentioning that it would be a very wise safety precaution for each of my fellow Arsians to remember it, and not share anything important in Twitler DM's. Don't even share work related things, but especially not anything personal.
Who knows what Musk is scouring for at this point with bulk Admin-level searches of DM's and things normally considered private??? Be safe gang, a'ight?
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Musk only cares about advertisers and government to the extent that he is forced to do so by their economic and regulatory leverage.
For everyone else, it is to be a Battle Royale for reach and credibility. A huge part of the right-wing grievance against Twitter is that people pushing their viewpoints got filtered out. This is because they tend to be uninteresting, unlikeable or unable to follow the TOS. But they prefer to believe that Twitter was playing favorites, and without Twitter's thumb on the scale, their viewpoints will surely be embraced and amplified. Verification just pushes the narrative that people who are willing to associate their account with a real identity are more trustworthy than random trolls.
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There's a clip I've seen bandied about a lot where Elon literally says he doesn't care about the economics of it. That was before he owned the platform though. It's very obvious he very much does care, and even more obvious he has no idea that he's the root cause of all of Twitter's financial woes.
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He realizes the whole point of shadowbanning is to not give a tell that bots and trolls need to create new accounts right?
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How could you not? If you work for a Musk company, every day is a Monday.
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When it is Plaid verification you know it will be the real-deal.
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ArsTechnica5436
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Too bad it wasn't 9 dollars or 11 dollars for apple. Then it could be 9-11 chan for all the conspiracy nuts.
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The fundamental problem is that no Musk policy or promise has any guarantee attached to it. As long as he owns it everything, and i mean EVERYTHING, can be changed at a whim.
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So New Twitter Blue 2.0 will get taken back down…what, Tuesday afternoon?
I mean, is there a more-watched public-facing software update out there right now? What are the odds that Twitter’s handful of sleep-deprived hardcore engineers with the pay problems and the sofa beds and the increasingly disgusting bathrooms have written well-thought-out code with no bugs?
I mean, is there a more-watched public-facing software update out there right now? What are the odds that Twitter’s handful of sleep-deprived hardcore engineers with the pay problems and the sofa beds and the increasingly disgusting bathrooms have written well-thought-out code with no bugs?
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Is Musk going to keep the policy where you can block advertisers? I always liked that but also thought it was weird that a feature of the site allowed you to block companies paying for ads on the same site.
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TechRadar is reporting Musk is going to delete 1.5 billion ’inactive’ accounts. Lefties, most likely.
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HoNoRaRy DeGrEeS aRe BeTtEr, hE eArNeD tHeM WiThOuT BeInG TaUgHt
/s in case it is not blatantly obvious
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Uh sure. In a world where heavily armed, poorly-informed in-duh-viduals show up to investigate the basements of single-story pizzerias, we should trust people to have the 'common sense' to figure everything out for themselves. Not in this timeline.
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It is important to understand that Twitter does not have policies in the regular meaning of that word. Twitter does what the Bossman wants in the moment. That's kind of the beginning and end of it. Years of trustbuilding burnt to the ground in minutes, days, and weeks.
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But if they don't know they are shadowbanned how will they spend another $7 or $11 on a new verified account.
A bit more seriously. No he doesn't realize that, yet. Same as he still doesn't seem to understand that the reason that Twitter had that many people working on moderation was because automation just cannot handle it, it can do a fairly decent first pass, maybe even a second but a lot of that stuff needs humans just to figure out if that automation needs an update to counter the latest evolution in automoderation evasion.
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I wonder how long it will take him to figure out that this will never bring in any significant money. He will start to see the numbers, but he will imagine that they are going to grow exponentially. And they never will.
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You'll be able to buy a position on the safety team. How much do you think people will pay?
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I was thinking more like $8Stan or $11Stan depending on where you signed up for it
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?Meanwhile, all the banned accounts of the slime balls of the world don't need no stinking blue account.
The 'I don't care about Elon Musk, I care about (XXX)' crowd gets another lesson in a long line of lessons about how you should rightly care.
The 'I don't care about Elon Musk, I care about (XXX)' crowd gets another lesson in a long line of lessons about how you should rightly care.
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ArsTechnica5436
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I think he's closer to Mr. Burns. He has that "...Release the Hounds" mentality.
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Even better yet delete your account. We're here for you and I promise it will be alright.
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Pro tip: Like Trump, when Elon's lips are moving (Tweets), he's lying.
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Yes, if people can it's best to delete the account. If it's so bad we have to start to worry about Musk collecting our data like that.
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No assurance that their ads won't display alongside posts from the Neonazi activists he's unbanned and is curating for.
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They should use shape + colour to denote information to aid those who are colourblind or have other vision issues.
But when has Musk ever cared about people with disabilities (or anyone other than himself).
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ArsTechnica5436
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Elon Musk cares about making people disabled.
He's also abusive from what it seems. Grimes was conflicted on ending communications with her Mom after Elon instructed her too.
It's sick to me hes able to fool people who are desperate into thinking he wants to cure people with disabilities with his animal skull drilling lab.
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